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- 03 Mar 2010
- What Do You Think?
To What Degree Does “Identity” Affect Economic Performance?
investors-problems that may otherwise persist for many years." The questions this raises are: Just what solutions address Shiller's concerns? How can they be achieved? Can businesses, for example, be provided with incentives to... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 09 Oct 2001
- Research & Ideas
Five Questions for Paul Lawrence and Nitin Nohria
HBS Working Knowledge editor Sean Silverthorne conducted an email interview with Paul R. Lawrence and Nitin Nohria about their new book, Driven: How Human Nature Shapes Our Choices.Silverthorne: How did the concept of the four-drive framework come about? Was there a... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- December 2005 (Revised October 2006)
- Case
Nest Fresh Eggs (A)
By: Teresa M. Amabile and Victoria Winston
Cyd Szymanski's cage-free egg business was threatened by large caged-hen companies that saw new profit potential in the industry she had helped build. Szymanski had based her company, Nest Fresh Eggs, on a strong personal belief that people deserved healthier... View Details
Keywords: Motivation and Incentives
Amabile, Teresa M., and Victoria Winston. "Nest Fresh Eggs (A)." Harvard Business School Case 806-056, December 2005. (Revised October 2006.)
- winter 2003
- Article
Incentives: Getting What You Pay For
By: Nicole DeHoratius and Ananth Raman
Keywords: Motivation and Incentives
DeHoratius, Nicole, and Ananth Raman. "Incentives: Getting What You Pay For." ECR Journal (winter 2003).
- Fast Answer
Energy data sources: consumption and efficiency
by US Department of Commerce, US Census Bureau. You may search this site for more surveys on the topic. Database of State Incentives for Renewables & Efficiency® -- A source of information on View Details
- 30 Nov 2018
- What Do You Think?
What’s the Best Administrative Approach to Climate Change?
Summing Up: Should a 'Montreal Protocol' for Administering Global Warming Be Pursued? Climate change and how to manage it is a daunting subject. Nevertheless, several readers of this month’s column were willing to venture a model or two for administering a system... View Details
Sanford I. Weill
on strong execution and delivery of services, stock-based incentive compensation plans, and skillful blending of complimentary strengths and weaknesses, has helped to achieve his mission of building a brand name financial services... View Details
Keywords: Finance
- 22 Feb 2017
- Working Paper Summaries
Incentives, Peer Pressure, and Behavior Persistence
- 1 May 1995
- Conference Presentation
The Work Preference Inventory: Assessing Intrinsic and Extrinsic Motivational Orientations
Keywords: Motivation and Incentives
- 01 Apr 1976
- Conference Presentation
Deadlines: Their Effect on Subsequent Intrinsic Motivation
By: W. DeJong, Teresa M. Amabile and M. R. Lepper
Keywords: Motivation and Incentives
- 14 Nov 2024
- News
How the Insurance Industry Can Weather the Storms
cetera. We provide discounts if you use resilient materials, building materials. So we try to provide incentives to folks to make the right decisions. Those are more direct services. I would say that the indirect piece of this is if we... View Details
- 23 Aug 2012
- Working Paper Summaries
Field Evidence on Individual Behavior & Performance in Rank-Order Tournaments
- 21 May 2001
- Research & Ideas
From Tigers to Kaleidoscopes: Thinking About Future Leadership
What do leaders this year and the next need to be doing differently than last year, and last decade, and last century? The rapidly changing business world means dramatic changes are afoot in time-worn notions about leadership, according to the book Management 21C:... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 1983
- Chapter
The Social Motives
By: John J. Gabarro
Gabarro, John J. "The Social Motives." In Managing Behavior in Organizations, edited by Leonard A. Schlesinger, Robert G. Eccles, and John J. Gabarro. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1983.
- 2013
- Article
Achievement Motivation, Strategic Orientations and Business Performance in Entrepreneurial Firms: How Different are Japanese and American Founders?
By: Rohit Deshpandé, Amir Grinstein, Elie Ofek and Sang-Hoon Kim
Purpose: There is lack of research on the link between the personal disposition of an entrepreneurial firm's founder, the firm's strategic orientation, and its performance outcomes. Also, there is lack of cross-national research on entrepreneurial firms' strategic... View Details
Keywords: Motivation; Entrepreneurs; Japan; Motivation and Incentives; Entrepreneurship; Japan; United States
Deshpandé, Rohit, Amir Grinstein, Elie Ofek, and Sang-Hoon Kim. "Achievement Motivation, Strategic Orientations and Business Performance in Entrepreneurial Firms: How Different are Japanese and American Founders?" International Marketing Review 30, no. 3 (2013).
- 02 Apr 2015
- Research & Ideas
Digital Initiative Summit: Freeing Patient Data to Enable Innovation
offered proper incentives for standardizing and sharing the information they collect. Even the industry's brightest minds and hardest workers have yet to definitively determine what those incentives ought to... View Details
- August 2009
- Case
Life Stories of Recent MBAs: Motivations
By: Nitin Nohria, Matthew D. Breitfelder and Daisy A Wademan Dowling
Nohria, Nitin, Matthew D. Breitfelder, and Daisy A Wademan Dowling. "Life Stories of Recent MBAs: Motivations." Harvard Business School Case 410-031, August 2009.
- March 2001 (Revised December 2001)
- Supplement
Circon (C)
By: Brian J. Hall, Guhan Subramanian and Christopher A Rose
Supplements the (A) case. View Details
Keywords: Motivation and Incentives; Corporate Governance; Medical Devices and Supplies Industry; United States
Hall, Brian J., Guhan Subramanian, and Christopher A Rose. "Circon (C)." Harvard Business School Supplement 801-405, March 2001. (Revised December 2001.)
- August 8, 2003
- Comment
A Better Way to Motivate Staff
By: Roberto G. Mendoza, Peter Hancock and Robert C. Merton
Mendoza, Roberto G., Peter Hancock, and Robert C. Merton. "A Better Way to Motivate Staff." Financial Times (August 8, 2003). (Comment.)
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Lesson from the Fall
illegal, gaming of society’s rules that led to Enron’s collapse. The answer points to three persis-tent tasks of corporate governance: the avoidance of perverse incentives for executives, the strengthening of board oversight, and the... View Details